According to the Brown Driver Briggs lexicon, the Hebrew abaddon ( Hebrew: אבדון ; avadon ) is an intensive form of the Semitic root and verb stem abad ( א ָ ב ַ ד ) " perish " ( transitive " destroy "), which occurs 184 times in the Hebrew Bible.

Haggai's name is derived from the Hebrew verbal root hgg, which means " to make a pilgrimage.

Greek kanon / κανών, Arabic Qanon / قانون, Hebrew kaneh / קנה, " straight "; a rule, code, standard, or measure ; the root meaning in all these languages is " reed " ( cf.

For instance, the second word of the Arabic name of the festival, has the root F-Ṣ-Ḥ, which given the sound laws applicable to Arabic is cognate to Hebrew P-S-Ḥ, with " Ḥ " realized as in Modern Hebrew and in Arabic.

" Esther " may have been a different Hebrew interpretation from the Proto-Semitic root "*? aθtar-' morning / evening star '", which descended with the / th / into the Ugaritic Athtiratu and Arabian Athtar.

The Hebrew קהלת is a feminine participle related to the root קהל meaning " to gather.

Greek translators used " ecclesia " to render קהל ( qahal ) of the same Hebrew root.

In view of the meaning of the Hebrew root (" gather, assemble, convene ") one might opt for the translation " Speaker ".

His works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world and, transcending the boundaries of the genre, some of his themes have long since taken root in popular culture – such as " La donna è mobile " from Rigoletto, " Va, pensiero " ( The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves ) from Nabucco, " Libiamo ne ' lieti calici " ( The Drinking Song ) from La traviata and the " Grand March " from Aida.

The name is possibly related to the Akkadian khabbaququ, the name of a fragrant plant, or the Hebrew root, meaning " embrace ".

In the Book of Jonah a worm ( in Hebrew tola ' ath, " maggot ") bites the shade-giving plant's root causing it to wither, while in the epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh plucks his plant from the floor of the sea which he reached by tying stones to his feet.

* In the Hebrew Bible, ( קדשה ) Qedesha or Kedeshah, derived from the root Q-D-Š < ref name = note2 > Also transliterated qĕdeshah, q < sup > e </ sup > deshah, qědēšā, qedashah, kadeshah, kadesha, qedesha, kdesha.

Samuel in the Hebrew root word is " sha ’ al " which is mentioned seven times in 1 Samuel 1 and once as " sha ’ ul " ( 1: 28 ), which is Saul ’ s name in Hebrew.

The word " Torah " in Hebrew is derived from the root ירה which in the hifil conjugation means " to guide / teach " ( cf.

The Talmud ( Hebrew: " instruction, learning ", from a root " teach, study ") is a central text of mainstream Judaism, considered second to the Torah.

Even more unexpected than the panoply of Indo-European cognates for Dao ( drog ) is the Hebrew root d-r-g for the same word and Arabic t-r-q, which yields words meaning " track, path, way, way of doing things " and is important in Islamic philosophical discourse.

But the name may also derive from the Hebrew root K-S-L as in the words " kesel, kisla " ( hope, positiveness ) or " ksil " ( Orion, a constellation that shines especially in this month )-because the expectation and hope for rains.

Yom means " day " in Hebrew and Kippur comes from a root that means " to atone ".

Hebrew root ( swr ) is used to picture those who have turned away and ceased to follow God (' I am grieved that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me ,' 1 Samuel 15: 11 ).

The word rabbi derives from the Semitic root R-B-B, in Hebrew script rav, which in biblical Aramaic means ‘ great ’ in many senses, including " revered ", but appears primarily as a prefix in construct forms.

Another theory holds it could be derived from the Hebrew verb root חפה ( hafa ), meaning to cover or shield, i. e. Mount Carmel covers Haifa ; others point to a possible origin in the Hebrew word חו ֹ ף ( hof ), meaning shore, or חו ֹ ף י ָ פ ֶ ה ( hof yafe ), meaning beautiful shore.

Greek ἄβαξ itself is probably a borrowing of a Northwest Semitic, perhaps Phoenician, word akin to Hebrew ʾābāq ( אבק ), " dust " ( since dust strewn on wooden boards to draw figures in ).

The Phoenician letter names, in which each letter was associated with a word that begins with that sound, continue to be used to varying degrees in Samaritan, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic.

The Christian writer's traditional re-interpretation is that the Hebrew word Sheol can mean many things, including " grave ", " resort ", " place of waiting " and " place of healing ".

This word is usually conceded to be derived from the Hebrew ( Aramaic ), meaning " Thou art our father " ( אב לן את ), and also occurs in connection with Abrasax ; the following inscription is found upon a metal plate in the Carlsruhe Museum:

Its latest meaning is more or less similar to the Sanskrit word kalpa and Hebrew word olam.

The Bible translation is a treatment of the Hebrew word olam and the Greek word aion.

The Hebrew term Abaddon (, ), an intensive form of the word " destruction ", appears as a place of destruction in the Hebrew Bible.

The word may come from Hebrew har məgiddô (), meaning " Mountain of Megiddo ".

Other scholars, including C. C. Torrey, Kline and Jordan argue that the word is derived from the Hebrew moed (), meaning " assembly ".

This comes from the use of the word " Hebrew " to designate a people instead of a language: the Hebrew Bible is the Bible of the Hebrew people.

Loving-kindness living: Boaz and Ruth are models of an altruism for which the word " loving-kindness " has been coined ( approximately translating Hebrew hesed ).

His name comes either from the Hebrew word חבק ( khavak ) meaning " embrace " or else from an Akkadian word hambakuku for a kind of plant.

In the Septuagint version of the Hebrew Bible, the word Christ was used to translate into Greek the Hebrew mashiach ( messiah ), meaning " anointed.

The title " Messiah " comes from the Hebrew word מ ָ ש ִׁ יח ַ ( māšiáħ ) meaning anointed one.

The term Mazzaroth, a hapax legomenon in Job 38: 32, may be the Hebrew word for the zodiacal constellations.

For instance, while the Hebrew word chutzpah means " impudence ," its Arabic cognate ḥaṣāfah means " sound judgment ;" even more contradictorily, the English word black and Polish biały, meaning white, both derive from the PIE, meaning, " to burn or shine.

The term cabal derives from Kabbalah ( a word that has numerous spelling variations ), the mystical interpretation ( of Babylonian origin ) of the Hebrew scripture, and originally meant either an occult doctrine or a secret.

Hanukkah (, Tiberian:, usually spelled, pronounced in Modern Hebrew ; also romanized as Chanukah, Chanukkah, Chanuka, or Khanukah ), also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple ( the Second Temple ) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE.

In determining the date of the Jewish Passover a lunisolar calendar is also used, and because Easter always falls on a Sunday it usually falls up to a week after the first day of Passover ( Nisan 15 in the Hebrew calendar ).

Modern Hebrew tends to reserve this for a limited number of nouns, but usually prefers to use the preposition shel, as in the previous case.

Despite this, the tradition of most Ashkenazi Orthodox synagogues is to use Hebrew ( usually Ashkenazi Hebrew ) for all except a small number of prayers, including the Kaddish, which had always been in Aramaic, and sermons and instructions, for which the local language is used.

Also, under influence from orthography of European languages, transliterating of borrowed words into Arabic is usually done using vowels in place of diacritics, even when the latter is more suitable, and even when transliterating words from another Semitic language, such as Hebrew, a phenomenon augmented by the neglect of diacritics in most printed forms since the beginning of mechanical printing.

Mary Magdalene's given name Μαρία ( Maria ) is usually regarded as a Latin form of Μαριὰμ ( Mariam ), which is the Greek variant used in Septuagint for Miriam, the Hebrew name for Moses ' sister.

Ehyeh is usually translated " I will be ", since the imperfect tense in Hebrew denotes actions that are not yet completed ( e. g. Exodus 3: 12, " Certainly I will be with thee .").

In the Hebrew Bible El ( Hebrew: אל ) appears very occasionally alone ( e. g. Genesis 33: 20, el elohe yisrael, " El the god of Israel ", and Genesis 46: 3, ha ' el elohe abika, " El the god of your father "), but usually with some epithet or attribute attached ( e. g. El Elyon, " Most High El ", El Shaddai, " El of Shaddai ", El ` Olam " Everlasting El ", El Hai, " Living El ", El Ro ' i " El my Shepherd ", and El Gibbor " El of Strength "), in which cases it can be understood as the generic " god ".

Scholars usually refer to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible as the Pentateuch, a term first used in the Hellenistic Judaism of Alexandria, meaning five books, or as the Law, or Law of Moses.

Each tractate is divided into chapters ( perakim ; singular: perek ), 517 in total, that are both numbered according to the Hebrew alphabet and given names, usually using the first one or two words in the first mishnah.

* Jerome's independent translation from the Hebrew: the books of the Hebrew Bible, usually not including his translation of the Psalms.

The Vulgate is usually credited as being the first translation of the Old Testament into Latin directly from the Hebrew Tanakh, rather than the Greek Septuagint.

Rabbinical students usually earn a secular degree ( e. g., Master of Hebrew Letters ) upon graduation.

Baʿal ( Biblical Hebrew,, usually spelled Baal in English ) is a Northwest Semitic title and honorific meaning " master " or " lord " that is used for various gods who were patrons of cities in the Levant and Asia Minor, cognate to Akkadian Bēlu.

In a very broad sense it can refer to the entire chain of Jewish tradition ( see Oral law ), but in reference to the Masoretic Text the word mesorah has a very specific meaning: the diacritic markings of the text of the Hebrew Bible and concise marginal notes in manuscripts ( and later printings ) of the Hebrew Bible which note textual details, usually about the precise spelling of words.

In nine passages of the Bible are found signs usually called " inverted nuns ", because they resemble the Hebrew letter nun ( נ ) written in some inverted fashion.

Although Hebrew names usually relate to the child's character and tend to be prophetic, Adonijah's name did not stop him from seeking to usurp his brother Solomon's throne.

A Jewish holiday ( Yom Tov or chag in Hebrew ) is a day that is holy to the Jewish people according to Judaism and is usually derived from the Hebrew Bible, specifically the Torah, and in some cases established by the rabbis in later eras.

It is usually rendered as Hebrew in English, from the ancient Greek </ noinclude >< span lang =" grc " lang =" grc " class =" polytonic " style =" font-family :' Palatino Linotype ';"> Ἑβραῖος </ span > and Latin Hebraeus.